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Winchester college
Collegium Sanctae Mariae prope Wintoniam,
or
Collegium Beatae Mariae Wintoniensis prope Winton
which translates into English as: St Mary's College, near Winchester , or The College of the Blessed Mary of Winchester, near Winchester .
Winchester College is an independent school for boys in the British public school tradition, situated in Winchester, Hampshire, Englan...

Aim of this project is to list all American soldiers who were prisoners of war during World War Two. You can help by linking profiles of American POW's to this project or create profiles and link them.

The United States Military Academy, or West Point, played a crucial and pivotal role in the Civil War, both before and during the war.
List of alumni who fought in the Civil War:
West Point and the Civil War:

The American Civil War (1861–1865), also referred to as the War Between the States or simply the Civil War, was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ("the Confederacy"); the o...

The Union Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War , which lasted from 1861 to 1865. It consisted of the small United States Army, known as the regular army, which was augmented by massive numbers of units supplied by northern U.S. states, consisting of volunteers as well as conscripts. The Union Army fought and eventually defeated the Confederate States A...

The Mexican–American War , also known as the First American Intervention , the Mexican War , or the U.S.–Mexican War , was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution.
Combat operations lasted a year and a half, from sprin...

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Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The College's full name is The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge. Its common name comes from the name of its Chapel, Jesus Chapel.
The college was established between 1496 and 1516, on the site of the twelfth-century Benedicti...

Wyoming Pioneers are those who emigrated to the Wyoming Territory prior to statehood in 1890. The usual indication that a person was a pioneer is a listing in 1870 or 1880 censuses for Wyoming, or a land entry dated before 1890. County records are also good sources of information.
Wyoming is the iconic state of the Old West. The United States acquired international title to the area east of t...

The purpose of this project is to honour the brave Kaszubian men and women during World War 2. They are modern heroes and heroines. The project will focus on Kaszubians who were executed, interned and otherwise detained by the Nazis during the years 1939 to 1945.
Celem tego projektu jest uhonorowanie dzielnych mężczyzn i kobiet Kaszubskich z czasów II wojny światow...

Knechtges, David R. and Chang, Taiping, eds. Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature , A Reference Guide. Leiden: Brill, 2014
contains excellent biographies of literary figures up to the Sui Dynasty. During the early medieval period, or the Six Dynasties (Wei, Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen), almost all literati (men of letter) came from the "high families," which could be called aristocr...

Young University (often referred to as BYU or, colloquially, The Y) is a private research university located in Provo, Utah, United States. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and, excluding online students, is the largest of any religious university and the 3rd largest private university in the United States, with 29,672[9] on-campus studen...

EN - The Farroupilha Revolution or War of the Farrapos was a Republican uprising that began in southern Brazil, in the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina in 1835. The rebels, led by generals Bento Gonçalves da Silva and Antônio de Sousa Neto with the support of the Italian fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi, surrendered to imperial forces in 1845. The war was the cause of the ...

People Connected to Aberdeenshire - Scotland
Historic County
Image right - Aberdeenshire within Scotland in 1890
See also Aberdeenshire - Main Page
People connected to Aberdeenshire can be placed in the following groups.
Clans
Clan Arbuthnott
Clan Baird
Historical and Political people
- accommodated by the project Historical Aberdeenshire which covers the History of ...

A project for DAR members to meet each other, and for non-members to find ancestors that enable them to join. Use the related projects below to help focus your DAR research goals.
Geni Project - DAR Patriots
Geni Project - DAR Descendants
Geni Project - DAR Daughters
"The Daughters of the American Revolution is a charitable organization that requires members be women over 18 able to...

farmer (also called an agriculturer) is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer might own the farmed land or might work as a labourer on land owned by others, but in advanced economies, a farmer is usually a fa...

[]This Geni.com project is aimed to coordinate those who are users on both the Geni.com and FamilySearch.org Genealogical Social Networking services.We can include those profiles that have Smart Matched together those profiles on both internet services here.

Hebrew reading users are familiar with the phenomenon of profiles with Hebrew names written in reversed direction. This is a briliant workaround from the time when the "Reverse RTL Names" option did not exist for tree view, or made by creative and hardworking users not familiar with the option.Entering data this way, even as a "Display Name", beside being tedious, error prone and needless job, ...

Welcome to Geni's Project Producers Plaza
pick your table and read through this special menu full of Project Producers ingredients from all over the Big Geni World Tree
Bon Apetit!
For table reservations please contact the project manager (for Project makers ONLY!) : Dimitri Gazan
For further details on how to participate in this Plaza, click this link: Welcome project producers!

Clan Gordon
Also known as the House of Gordon
☀☀☀ Officially registered clan, with Clan Chief, registered with the Lord Lyon Court.
Contributors/contributions welcome - but please do not copy and paste Wiki!!
Please join the project and add information if you can.
Crest/Badge Issuant from a crest coronet Or a stag's head (affrontée) Proper attired with te...

Rather than face deportation and murder, a number of victims of Nazi oppression committed suicide. For example, in the wake of Germany's annexation of Austria, hundreds of Jews took their own lives. Today this final act of desperation is seen as an act of resistance, of an attempt at some sort of self-determination by the victims of Nazi oppression. This project seeks to collect the profiles of...

For us, forgetting was never an option.
Remembering is a noble and necessary act.
The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history.
No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible.
It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.
Elie Wiesel
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This project is in memory of the 1.5 million precious innocent young souls martyred in the Shoah.
Children of the Holocaust
Kindertransport 1938 - 1940
Biographies and Stories
Memorial to Children of the Holocaust
Anne Frank
Nazis’ Aryan ‘Poster Child’ Was Actually Jewish
Photo of the Little Girl in Red Coat

20th January 2011 : Building initiated of a complete list of historical/ public profiles of members of the Sulaimani Jamaat , a smaller sect of the Shi'a community mainly settled in India, Pakistan & Yemen , with members spread across the Western World, Europe & GCC in the past few decades of the 21st century.
February-June 2011 : Historic profiles of the Al-Hindi, Banu Al-Anf & Banu Al-Makra...

January 2011 : 1st Project for Sulaimani Community
August 2012 :
Dear All, This was started as a test project when I first started using GENI in January 2011. I am thinking of maintaining only 1 project for the community in order to set ease and convenience for all members. All historic profiles, and updates will be added only to that project then, and all members are invited to follow that...

(This project is a work in progress.)
The U.S. Constitution is the most important document in the history of the United States. Of the 55 men who attended the Constitutional Convention of 1787, only 39 signed this document, plus William Jackson, the convention's secretary. Many of the men left wives and families to be there, a difficult but necessary sacrifice.
Behind every great man is a g...

Historic Buildings of Cheshire, England
See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page
Image right - Arley Hall, Northwich
This project needs developing - if you wish to work on it please contact June or Terry who would be delighted!
The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Cheshire, with links to sub-projects for sp...

Note: While using ANY genealogical website or program...please be informed that ANY possible family connections are NOT valid until they can be verified with documentation.
PLEASE ALL PROFILES MUST SHOW A CONNECTION TO GREENE COUNTY INDIANA and some documnetation to prove the connection NO BLANK PROFILES PLEASE -
1 - as emigrating to Greene county Indiana - with a about data and source in...

This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from Kentucky .
From Carol Ely on Kentucky's Jewish history at the Kentucky FolkWeb site:
Jews were present for the very creation of Kentucky. The Virginia mercantile firm of Cohen and Isaacs hired Daniel Boone to scout out their Kentucky lands; and another merchant family, the Gratz family of Philadelphia, set up trading posts ...

This project is here to give us a greater insight into the lives of our ancestors from across the empire and to help us work together to find our common roots.
List of Austro-Hungarian Jews Wikipedia
Famous People
Sigmund Freud : Father of Psychoanalysis.
Theodor Herzl : Father of Zionism.
Stefan Zweig : Novelist, playwright, journalist, biographer.
Franz Kafka : Novelist.

The idea of this project is to include "all" refugees from the Holocaust who managed to emigrate from Europe to safe countries, and to connect these immigrants to their families in Europe.
Holocaust & Reich Refugees & Emigrés 1933-1945
List of Project Profiles
Nazi Regime GenocideTimeline , Interactive Timeline
The German Nazi persecution started with the Nazi boycott of Jewi...

Writers
Definition (Oxford Paperback Dictionary Thesaurus 2001)
A writer is a person who has written a particular text, or who writes books or articles as an occupation - the thesaurus lists author, bard, composer, dramatist, journalist, littérateur, novelist, playwright, poet, wordsmith.
Please link the profiles of writers to this project and consider whether they could also b...

Publishers
Image Right: Thomas Nelson the founder of the publishing firm of Thomas Nelson and Sons that began in Scotland in 1798, a subsidiary of HarperCollins,
Definition: A publisher is a company or person that publishes books, newspaper, journals or music
Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature, music, or information -making information availabl...

Notables in the Newspaper Business
Famous Newspapers
New York Times
Owners
William Randolph Hearst American newspaper magnate and leading newspaper publisher
Rupert Murdoch Australian-American business magnate. He is the founder and Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, the world's second-largest media conglomerate.
Adolph Simon Ochs American newspaper publisher and former...

THE UNBROKEN CHAIN
Biographical Sketches and Genealogy of Illustrious Jewish Families from the 15th - 20th Century. Dr. Neil Rosenstein's magnum opus The Unbroken Chain was first published as a single volume in 1976. An expanded two-volume second edition of "The Unbroken Chain" was published in 1990.
The author announced in December 2012 that he was in the process of earnestly editing...

The United States Military Academy at West Point (USMA), also known as West Point, Army, The Academy, or simply, The Point, is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located in West Point, New York. The academy sits on scenic high ground overlooking the Hudson River, 50 miles (80 km) north of New York City. The entire central campus is a national landmark and home to scores of hist...

Indian Wars is the name used in the United States to describe a series of conflicts between White settlers or the federal government and the native peoples of North America. (This is a Master Project. We need help with expanding and fleshing out this project!)
The wars were the result of the arrival of European colonizers who continuously expanded their territory pushing the indigenous popula...

The Queen's College, University of Oxford
High Street, Oxford
The Queen's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. The college was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield (d'Eglesfield) in honour of Queen Philippa of Hainault (wife of King Edward III of England). The college is distinguished by its predominantly neoclassical architecture, which includes buildin...

University of Oxford
The University of Oxford (informally referred to as Oxford University or simply Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England, United Kingdom.
Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world, and the second-oldest surviving univer...

The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, commonly known as Inner Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court (professional associations for barristers and judges) in London. To be called to the Bar and practise as a barrister in England and Wales, an individual must belong to one of these Inns. It is located in the wider Temple area of the capital, near the Royal Courts of Justice, and within t...

New College, University of Oxford
Holywell Street, Oxford
Founded by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, 1379 New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The full name of the college is The Warden and Scholars of St Mary's College of Winchester in Oxford. The College's official name, College of St Mary, is the same as that of the o...

This project is for people who were impacted by the Nuremberg laws "new" definition of a Jew: those who had in fact been baptized at birth and brought up as "Christians", but had two, three or four Jewish grandparents. Many of these people suffered in additional ways as they no longer belonged to the "Christian" community, and did not belong to the Jewish community either, if they were married ...

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USS West Virginia (BB-48), a Colorado-class battleship, was the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 35th state.
Her keel was laid down on 12 April 1920 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Newport News, Virginia. She was launched on 19 November 1921 sponsored by Miss Alice Wright Mann, daughter of Isaac T. Mann, a prominent West Virginian; and co...

The attack on Pearl Harbor (called Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters (Operation Z in planning) and the Battle of Pearl Harbor) was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). From the standpoint of the defende...

Utrecht Children's Committee
The Utrecht children's Committee or simply children's Committee during the occupation was a Dutch resistance group from Utrecht who was letting go into hiding several hundreds of Jewish children.
The children's Committee was set up in the summer of 1942 by Jan Meulenbelt and Rut Matthijsen. With the help of this organization and the Amsterdam student group, seve...

The Green Mountain Boys were a militia organization first established in the late 1760s in the territory between the British provinces of New York and New Hampshire, known as the New Hampshire Grants (which later became the state of Vermont). Headed by Ethan Allen and members of his extended family, they were instrumental in resisting New York's attempts to control the territory, over which it ...

The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred during the American Revolutionary War on May 10, 1775, when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame a small British garrison at the fort and looted the personal belongings of the garrison. Cannons and other armaments from the fort were transported to Boston and used to fortify Dorchester Heights and br...

The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is one of four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of England and Wales belong and where they are called to the Bar. The other three are Middle Temple, Inner Temple and Gray's Inn. It is believed to be named after Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln. Lincoln's Inn is situated in Holborn, in the London Borough of Camden, just on the border with the ...

On Geni you can access and collaborate on the most comprehensive Jewish family trees ever created. This Portal is a guide to significant Jewish genealogy umbrella or resource projects on Geni. After the Historical Projects overview, the Portal is organized primarily by geographic region, similar to the database structure at JewishGen . The Portal is meant to complement and reorganize the Jewish...

This project seeks to collect representatives of all of the Jewish families from Mladá Boleslav (Jungbunzlau) in Bohemia, Czech Republic.
Town in Bohemia, 60 kilometers north of Prague. The presence of Jews in Mladá Boleslav (Ger., Jungbunzlau; known to Jews as Bumsla) was documented by the second half of the fifteenth century. Until the nineteenth century, Jews comprised roughl...

Work in progress Chapters to be added: 'Cathar belief system', 'Geopolitical context'...
Objective of this Project
The objectives of this project are...
To connect the major actors around the Cathar movement and the ensuing inquisition across regional boundaries - and thus to gain better insight into a phenomenon that had significant consequences for the political shape of modern Spain ...

Historic Lancashire (Incl. Manchester & Merseyside)
The purpose of this project is to give a historical background to Lancashire, to provide information about those individuals of Historic importance linked to the county and to add links to any profiles of significant people linked to Lancashire who have profiles on GENi.
Please visit for a more comprehensive History of the County.
...

Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States, and was named for King James I of England. The Jamestown Settlement was established on the James River about 40 miles upstream from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay on May 24, 1607. Established by the Virginia Company of London, along with making a profit, the goals of the company were to expand English lands ...

This was one of the many wars that made up the French and Indian Wars. See the Master Project Indian Wars
The summary is taken from French and Indian War and Atlas of the North American Indian, Revised Edition, 2000.
French and Indian War
What most historians call the French and Indian War was really the final conflict in a long series of wars among the the European colonial powers for wo...

A displaced persons camp or DP camp is a temporary facility for displaced persons coerced into forced migration. The term is mainly used for camps established after World War II in West Germany and in Austria, as well as in the United Kingdom, primarily for refugees from Eastern Europe and for the former inmates of the Nazi German concentration camps. Even two years after the end of World War I...

This is an umbrella project, listing all of the sub-projects on Jews from towns in Bohemia and Moravia in the Czech Republic. Our goal is to set up a project page for each of the communities, and include links to families from those communities on the particular project page. For a good example of what can be done, see Kojetín , Koloděje , Lomnice , Praha/Prag/Prague and Tuč...

Background
In 1912 Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery published the seminal 2 volume edition THE GROTON AVERY CLAN. To this day it stands as the most complete and well researched genealogical reference of the Groton, Connecticut Avery line descended from Christopher Avery and Margery Stephens of England.
This project is a compilation of Geni Profiles that are cited...

In the mid-1800s Kashubians migrated for economic reasons. After the Franco-Prussian War and the unification of Germany under Bismarck, Kashubians were met with institutionalized hostility. Life was very harsh for the Kashubs. It was illegal to use Polish or Kashubian in public, especially in church. Many priests were imprisoned or exiled. Churches were left with no parish priests. As a result,...

This project provides a place to connect projects related to the Neely families.
Project Organization
The Neelys from Scotland and Ireland from 1590 through to the emmigration of a number of the Neelys to North America in the late 1600's.
Six generations of Neelys in the United States , starting with Thomas Neely, Sr. (1695-1756), with primary focus through to Theophilus Monroe Neely (...

ROY GRIFFITH NEELY September 15, 1898 - February 1, 1980; 81 years old By Roy “Buddy” Neely Jr. In the summer of 1898, our grandfather, W.H. “Will” Neely , was a tenant farmer having difficulty providing for his family of six children. Grandmother Ulah was pregnant and due in early fall. R.W. Griffith, an early settler on Boggy Branch in the region and a landholder f...

The Royal Society
A Gathering of the greatest of minds.
The Royal Society is a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence
The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world’s most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering, and medicine.
The Society’s fundament...

Famous First
There always is a very first for everything. This fun fact project is a collection of famous first profiles, Who was the first person to? The aim of this project is to create a collection of all those people who were the first.
Feel free to add profiles that are not listed yet.
Famous Firsts up to 1199
Late 800s Alfred the Great - First King of England
1141 (disputed)...

Ambassadors of the United States
Ambassadors of the United States to individual nations of the world, to international organizations, to past nations, and ambassadors-at-large are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
Jon Huntsman - China
Gary Locke - China
General Walter Bedell Smith - Soviet Union
Thomas J. Watson Jr - Soviet Union

Institute of Technology=The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, MIT adopted a European polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering. Researchers worked on computers, radar, and inertial ...

The United States House of Representatives
From Wikipedia:
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the United States Congress (bicameral legislature). It is frequently referred to as 'the House'. The other house is the Senate. The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the United States Constitution. The major power of the House ...

United States Governors
In the United States, the title governor refers to the chief executive of each state or insular territory, not directly subordinate to the federal authorities, but the political and ceremonial head of the state.
Role and powers
The United States Constitution preserves the notion that the country is a federation of semi-sovereign states and that powers not speci...

The United States Cabinet (usually referred to as the U.S. President's Cabinet or simplified as the Cabinet) is composed of the most senior appointed officers of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States. Its existence dates back to the first American President, George Washington, who appointed a Cabinet of four people (Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson; Secretary of...